Quotes About Foot-binding

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.